Sentences with phrase «of black musicians»

In this stunningly researched novel, Nicole Mones not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true tale of Holocaust heroism little - known in the West.

Not long after that, Mrs. Tudor spoke up when the high school invited a group of black musicians to come and sing.

Just as the girls are close to landing a record deal from an important producer (Curtis Armstrong, adding to his legacy of black musician films in an apparent effort to further shed his reputation as «Booger from Revenge of the Nerds»), Sister's troubled situation costs them their big break.

Not exact matches

Black Eyed Peas frontman and «The Voice» judge will.i.am said Simon Cowell should be applauded for the rise of TV's music talent shows because of the opportunities they provide for young musicians.

Amid all the hype about the Black Panther movie following its premiere Monday night, it would be easy to forget that the movie has an original soundtrack compiled and produced by Kendrick Lamar, one of the world's most popular and most prestigious musicians.

He also traces the history of Islam among African - Americans by tying together such key developments as the formation of black fraternal lodges in the 18th and 19th centuries; Noble Drew Ali's 1913 organization of the Moorish Science Temple in Newark, New Jersey; the growth of various Islamic missionary and revivalist movements beginning in the 19th and continuing throughout the 20th centuries; and the conversion to Islam of be-bop jazz musicians who helped raise the faith's profile in the African - American community.

Year in, year out, moreover, the popular heroes of our culture — athletes, musicians, entertainers, and film stars, the aristocracy of talent adored, emulated, and worshipped as only royalties were in the past — are now significantly black as well.

Churches that invite black people and people of color into their «multicultural» worship spaces, but implicitly ask black singers to leave gospel music behind, ask black musicians to leave their hammond B - 3 behind or suggest that black preachers need to leave the fire of their «hoop» or preaching passion behind is a sunken - place theology.

Other blacks, some of them musicians who worked jazz up from the South, would feel the touch of fame, or once in a while have the thought that their names meant something to people outside their own.

At 2 p.m., NYC Councilman Robert Cornegy, Jr., co-Chair of the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus, and the son of Puerto Rican musician Tito Puente, Jr. join Champion Pizza to load supplies to be flown on Jay - z's plane to assist with Puerto Rico storm recovery efforts, 2 W. 14th St., Manhattan.

In a lengthy 1977 song, the musicians proclaimed Cygnus X-1, an x-ray emitting object thousands of light - years away, a black hole where voyagers venture «through the void to be destroyed» — even though physicist Stephen Hawking had bet against the black hole's existence.

We catched up with the Californian musician before one of her gigs of the European tour and talked with her about black sides, underground music and movies played in slow - motion.

The latter made his name as a filmmaker with the 2009 country musician drama Crazy Heart (which landed Jeff Bridges his Academy Award), and further established himself as a storyteller interested in making mood / performance - driven fare with the dramatic thriller Out of the Furnace and Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass..

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Against this backdrop comes a series of unique takes on southern stereotypes, ranging from a bizarre Klan rally to a black musician (Chris Thomas King) who claims to have sold his soul to the devil.

With the exception of Kendrick's favorite current collaborator (and tour mate) James Blake, the entirety of his Black Panther record is comprised of PoC musicians, emulating the cultural portrait Coogler has set out to make.

Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.

Limited Edition 2 Disc DVD set & Blu - Ray Extras: 36 minute Black Metal short film of deleted scenes, Alternate ending, Outtakes, The Cutting Room with musicians not in the film including: Enslaved, Ted «Nocturno Cutlo» Skjellum from Darkthrone, and Jørn «Necrobutcher» from Mayhem, plus more with Ulver, Immortal, Jan Axel «Hellhammer» Blomberg, Gylve» Fenriz» Nagell and Kjetil «Frost» Haraldstad, 46 more minutes of Varg Vikernes and a 45 minute class on the history of black metal with FBlack Metal short film of deleted scenes, Alternate ending, Outtakes, The Cutting Room with musicians not in the film including: Enslaved, Ted «Nocturno Cutlo» Skjellum from Darkthrone, and Jørn «Necrobutcher» from Mayhem, plus more with Ulver, Immortal, Jan Axel «Hellhammer» Blomberg, Gylve» Fenriz» Nagell and Kjetil «Frost» Haraldstad, 46 more minutes of Varg Vikernes and a 45 minute class on the history of black metal with Fblack metal with Fenriz

It's more conventional than it seems at first, opening with swipes at the phoniness of birth - to - death musician biopics — via a black - and - white film - within - the - film — before indulging in some phoniness of its own.

Pop and Lydon aren't the only musicians set to appear in the film, as Malick has also recruited Arcade Fire, Alan Palomo, Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes and The Black Lips, who were all filmed at an Austin City Limits Music Festival from a number of years ago.

His musicians look so tearingly chic in their black ties that the Duke is forced by their elegance into that most intricate of all costumes, simplicity.

Neither are the teen satanists in Jonas Åkerlund's phenomenal Lords of Chaos, based on the real - life story of early 90s Norwegian black metal musicians who wore corpse paint, burned churches and ended the decade dead or in jail.

More diverse roles followed: the lovelorn time - traveller in Richard Curtis romcom About Time; the dead boyfriend in the Be Right Back episode of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror; the hapless musician in Frank Sidebottom - inspired road movie Frank.

Costar Deon Cole of «black - ish,» «The New Girl» cast member Lamorne Morris, musicians Common, Tyga and Nicki Minaj, and actors Gina Hall and J.B. Smoove all join the cast for the first time, alongside returning performers such as Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, Anthony Anderson, Troy Garity and Sean Patrick Thomas.

Though the uncompressed PCM track is monaural only, the dialogue recordings are generally clean (if uneven) and the music is nicely presented, whether it's the brittle synth - and - sax stylings of the score by L.A. session musicians Gabriel Black and Lance Ong or the party - pop beats of Texas punk band Refugee.

Jonah Hill, Jack Black, Rooney Mara and a smattering of musicians (Carrie Brownstein, Beth Ditto, Kim Gordon) lend their talents as well.

(courtesy Sundance Institute) Rory Culkin plays a Norwegian Black Metal musician in Jonas Åkerlund's Lords of Chaos, which will screen in the Midnight program of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

A black and white re-enactment of a true - crime grabber starts it: artist Ed Ruscha and his buddy, the musician Mason Williams, autopsied a junked typewriter they threw from a car window at 90mph on a deserted road, per Ruscha's conceptual piece, Royal Road Test.

, Dan Gregor (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Cherry Jones (American Crime, Transparent), Rashida Jones (Angie Tribeca, Parks and Recreation), Andy Kindler (Bob's Burgers, Maron), Nick Kroll (Oh Hello on Broadway, Kroll Show), John Mulaney (Oh Hello on Broadway, Saturday Night Live), musician Krist Novoselic, Henry Rollins (The Legend of Korra, Sons of Anarchy), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black - ish, Reed Between the Lines), novelist Cheryl Strayed, Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok, Annihilation, Westworld, Creed), David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Role Models) Brent Weinbach (Rad Lands, Another Period), Dolly Wells (Doll & Em, 45 Years), Shannon Woodward (Westworld, Raising Hope), and singer - songwriter Kurt Vile.

(courtesy Sundance Institute) Rory Culkin plays a Norwegian Black Metal musician in Jonas Åkerlund's Lords of Chaos, whi...

Occupying most of the screen, the trio of country musicians performs among real live llamas and children (a song which is thankfully not in the film); at the bottom, a little (proportionately speaking) man in black dances around with some instructions for you to follow along.

Starting off in the 1840s United States, Chiwetel Ejiofor (American Gangster, Children of Men) stars as Solomon Northup, a free Black man living as a carpenter and musician in Saratoga, NY, with his wife and two children.

Shazam tells me that the «Black Skinhead» sound - alike used in the Logan Lucky trailer originated from a similar group of musicians.

«Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, and Armie Hammer star in the exhilarating directorial debut of musician Boots Riley, a biting and bonkers satire that follows a black telemarketer who

On Saturday Night Live, it's hard to pin down exactly what the Blues Brothers joke even was: the incongruity of young white men performing music associated with ancient black musicians?

The Incorporated Society of Musicians launched its new, freely available Teachers» Pack, and Black Dress Code also launched, to provide «fashionable and affordable concert clothes for performing musicians around the world», both youngMusicians launched its new, freely available Teachers» Pack, and Black Dress Code also launched, to provide «fashionable and affordable concert clothes for performing musicians around the world», both youngmusicians around the world», both young and old.

This predominantly black - and - white collection of images includes many of Avedon's best - known photos, notably the stunning nude of dancer Rudolf Nureyev and the sexy - vampy headshot of Marilyn Monroe, but also features lesser - known photo galleries of theatrical performers, musicians and dancers exuberantly engaged in their art.

James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.

In 1948, Rawlins debuts in Devil in a Blue Dress, in which he accepts a $ 100 offer to locate a missing white woman who keeps the company of black jazz musicians in South Central Los Angeles.

I had included «street musician» in my curriculum vitae, and this must have been a pink penguin in a sea of black and white applications.

While there, Tony meets up with musicians, Dan and Patrick of The Black Keys, for some serious finger - licking meat.

Other luminaries to make the Valley their home or who have secondary homes at this time include musicians Dolly Parton, David Crosby and Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas.

Heavy, black, death, industrial, stoner, thrash... and I took the opportunity to invite some the incredible musicians I've worked with at Conkrete Studio to sing and play on some of my tracks.

The crew must defeat a group of evil music producers (known as the Ostinato Musicians) who have been working with μ, and come face - to - face with their own black secrets / desires.

As many of you know, the main star is voiced by actor / musician Jack Black.

Tracy Johnson is a musician who happened to build an Instagram following by snapping unreal photos and videos of Anna's, Rufous, Allen's, Calliope, and Black - Chinned Hummingbirds in her backyard.

Coffin fills the plastic structure with houseplants and invites a wide variety of musicians — from the electronica band Black Dice to experimental singer - songwriter Arto Lindsay — to come inside and play.

The Black Arts Movement, formally established in 1965 by a group of politically motivated poets, artists, and musicians, had little use for abstract painting.

In his personal work, aside from self - producing two albums (Savage Journey and Orfeus Uprising), Matt created and curated one of the flagship events at the start of a second wave of underground black artists and musicians.

Much like jazz musicians, the artists of this tradition reflect the rich, symbolic world of the black rural South through highly charged works that address a wide range of revelatory social and political subjects.